Solidarity with the Tibetan people and a valid way out for all of humanity
23.03.2008Faced with the recent events in Tibet, the Humanist Regionals and all humanists of Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and North America condemn the bloody violence and repression by the regime of the People’s Republic of China against the demonstrators in Lhasa and in many other Tibetan cities.
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Position of the Humanist Movement in Kenya regarding recent developments
18.01.2008The continuing situation of social disturbance in Kenya is extremely worrying for humanists both within Kenya and around the world. A situation that has, in reality, been brewing ever since independence is now coming to a head. We are faced with the situation where the people of Kenya have been manipulated into the false game of tribe vs. tribe. The friends of the Kikuyus are supposedly on one side with the friends of the Luos supposedly on the other side.
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The Humanist International expresses solidarity to the non-violent protest in Burma
27.09.2007The Humanist International views with great concern the situation that is currently unfolding in Burma. The military regime that has trampled all over the human rights of the population ever since illegally coming to power in 1962 is repressing the peaceful demonstrations across the country, shooting and arresting monks and promising “extreme measures”.
It is high time that the Military gave up their hold on power and set in motion a process of power transfer to a democratically elected government.
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Brutal repression of a peaceful demonstration in Chile
30.08.2007We have just received word of disturbing news, corroborated by various sources, about the brutal repression of a peaceful demonstration organised by the CENTRAL UNITARIA DE TRABAJADORES in Santiago, Chile in which workers, students, politicians, of course from the left, including Senators and Deputies of the Concertación, Christian Democrats, Socialists and radicals all took part and were beaten, assaulted and injured just like in the worst times of the Pinochet dictatorship.
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Humanism and antihumanism
24.08.2007Given the announcement in Mexico of the formation of a “humanist party” linked to the right, which joins others that have been formed in Peru, Brazil, and Central America; in order to avoid any confusion in the public opinion in those countries, we find ourselves obligated to point out that their intentions are to appropriate and to distort in an entirely illegitimate way a name that has long been associated with a current of thought.
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